UPDATE: I received the following email from Ford O’Connell: Thank you for your kind words and the blog post. It is truly an honor to be named a 2010 Rising Star, but the award does not belong to me. It belongs to Steve Pearson, the ProjectVirginia Team, and the conservative and Republican activists of Virginia. […]

Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.
Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.